Better Safe Than Sorry

Sony Rootkit UNinstaller Almost Worse than Rootkit!

According to Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals.com (the chap who initially discovered the menace) the uninstaller only forces XP to issue the Windows command "net stop" that disables the driver. This inept handling can and has caused XP to crash. The President of Sony BMG's global digital business division Thomas Hesse has explained it all, "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" Right. I don't know what Sony stock is either so why should I care if it drops like a rock? Check out the story at The Register here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/sony_drm_who_cares/ and don't miss the link to the NPR interview with the clueless Sony Prez.